CA Studies Weekly, Week 10

A Russian explorer who discovered a small opening of water between Russia and present-day Alaska.

• Sir Francis Drake

• Juan Cabrillo

• Vitus Bering

• Hernan Cortez

Took advantage of the Aztec people of Mexico by allowing them to think he was the returning God, Quetzalcoatl.

• Vitus Bering

• Captain James Cook

• Juan Cabrillo

• Hernan Cortez

First explorer to sail around the world in his own boat.

• Sir Francis Drake

• Captain James Cook

• Vitus Bering

• Captain Hook

English explorer, navigator, and mapmaker who explored many of the Pacific Islands, including Hawaii and Easter Island

• Vitus Bering

• Captain James Cook

• Sebastian Vizcaino

• Sir Fracis Drake

This explorer anchored near San Francisco, named the surrounding land and claimed it for the English.

• Sebastian Vizcaino

• Sir Francis Drake

• Hernan Cortez

• Vitus Bering

This explorer was sent by Spain to establish a colony on the Central American Mainland.

• Sebastian Vizcaino

• Sir Francis Drake

• Juan Cabrillo

• Hernan Cortes

Remembered for visiting Easter Island and conquering indigenous people, this explorer sailed the Southern California coast in 1602-1603 and named San Diego, Santa Catalina Island, the Santa Barbara Channel, and Monterey bay.

• Sebastian Vizcaino

• Captain James Cook

• Sir Francis Drake

• Hernan Cortes

This English explorer made three trips to the Pacific Ocean and explored and mapped the North American coast from California to the Bering Strait.

• Vitus Bering

• Captain James Cook

• Sir Francis Drake

• Juan Cabrillo

Spanish soldiers who explored, conquered, and settled lands around the world.

• explorers

• conquistadors

• detectives

• tourists

San Diego was an ideal bay for Cabrillo's fleet because it

• was in the middle of the ocean

• had many supplies they needed

• was shallow enough for men to walk through

• was deep enough for large boats and sheltered from violent storms.